Romantic love seems amplify all of the human mind’s most ridiculous, tedious, frustrating, and downright painful idiosyncrasies. It shows us the psychological roots of pleasure and suffering.
And so if we make it into practice, it can teach us what it means to be a human.
To love in a way that is sustainable and conducive to happiness, we must “walk the middle way”. In the context of love this means balance – of wholeheartedness and openness to love without the clinging and grasping that lead to suffering…
This comes with practice.
It’s just like balancing on one foot. It’s a continuous process of falling off center (craving and obsession) and coming back (groundedness and non-clinging). It’s leaning to the left and to the right – oscillating around the sweet spot.
In this essay I explore Lessons from the Mind in Love.
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